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A NORMAL FORM THEOREM FOR BRJUNO SKEW-SYSTEMS THROUGH RENORMALIZATION ˜ JOAO LOPES DIAS Abstract. We develop a dynamical renormalization method for the problem of local reducibility of analytic linear quasi-periodic skew-product flows on 2 ×SL(2, ). This approach is based on the continued fraction expansion of the linear base flow and deals with ’small-divisors’ by turning them into ’large-divisors’. We use this method to give a new proof of a normal form theorem for a Brjuno base flow. 1. Introduction d d d d 1.1. Preliminaries. Consider the manifold × G, where = / and G is a Lie group with Lie algebra . The transformation of an arbitrary vector field X on d × G by a diffeomorphism ψ : d × G → d × G is given by ∗ −1 −1 ψ X = Dψ ◦ ψ · X ◦ ψ . (1.1) Let V ω be the set of real-analytic vector fields on this manifold of the form: X (x, y) = (ω , f (x) y), (x, y) ∈ d × G, (1.2) d ω d ω where ω ∈ − {0} and f ∈ C ( , ). Each element of V generates a skew-product flow on d × G. That is, at the “base” d we have the linear flow x → x + tω , t ≥ 0, ˙ and on the “fiber” G the flow obtained by solving y = f (x + tω) y . As we want to preserve the space V ω under real-analytic coordinate changes, we restrict them to the set Dω ,